Lol. Yeah, I was getting there. This was very thought provoking. Thanks for the food for thought.

new npub?

Well right, but if you don't participate in the politics, then you aren't being political. If politics is how we participate in decision making and you don't participate-you don't make a decision-how can it be political? You can't be moving and still at the same time.

By that premise, then sure Bitcoin is a decision making machine. But it's literally only machines doing the decision making. I don't decide that ocean finds the next block, ant finds the one after that, and I find the one after that. No one does.

It's an organization of sorts-of transactions-but to my initial point, the participation in that unit of account only enables the individuals to participate in every other aspect of their lives. If we didn't live in this shit storm, it wouldn't be political and neither would sex, gender, the climate. All of that shit got thrown in and manipulated in order to manipulate us. It made those things political that it gave other people the ability to manipulate us.

Bitcoin can't manipulate. It can't be manipulated. If everything is political, then yes, Bitcoin is political. But in the world outside of that purview, it's just a store of value and medium of exchange. It's just money.

Fiat is political. Bitcoin is the abstention from politics.

As far as fiat goes, they are. As far as money goes tho, as far as most sellable good, the market decides that on its own. Which also is not political, so much as an effect of each individual acting out of their own best interest. We've been conditioned to associating the state and the currency, that we call money. So in that paradigm, anything that can behave like money would look political.

So do you consider someone not voting a political act?

That's what I mean when I say it was his motivation. It reads to me like "these dumb fucks keep ruining our lives, so we made this thing so that they aren't physically and probably mentally capable of changing it." I'm saying its creator was political but none of its functions are.

I'll take scarcity over small blocks. I'm not ruling monero out either tho. The inflation for it barely matters after a long enough run, but I don't know enough about it to debate much more than that.

But Banksy IS political. I get what you're saying. But that seems like an effect of Bitcoin being introduced to a highly political world, not a principle of Bitcoin on its own. If we'd been using gold this whole time, it would only be more transferable and more scarce, but the politics around it wouldn't, and still don't, change the protocol. The corn's gonna corn no matter who is in office.

It has several tho. Borderless, absolutely scarce, digitally native, uncensorable, mineable, consensual.

And you're right, he did, and that was his motivation.

My point is anything can be many tools just like a pencil can convey a message, make art, kindling, a shank, etc. Use it politically to your heart's content, and trust, I do.

But in my view, the protocol is not inherently political. It is inherently deflationary, digital, scarce, all the things. The political part is a great angle but I don't see how it's base properties have anything to do with politics. If anything, it's just not fiat.

The more I think about it, the only thing that makes it political is that it isn't political 😂

I smell what you're stepping in but to caveat, money shouldn't be political. It's only the most sellable good which only became a political paradigm with the normalization of state backed fiat. In its natural state as the shelling point between market participants, it would be apolitical.

You can call that resistance and obviously Bitcoin was designed in that light, but when all of this is said and done, Bitcoin will just be the money. So I guess right now it's political but only because it became politicized.

But inherently, it's just a near perfect monetary system, which, if not now, will be apolitical.

Me right now

Thank you for caring. I hope she gets on nostr, she would probably like your posts about AI and science stuff

Digit is someone I was friends with on the internet a few years ago and worried about all the time since then. She had cancer when we were friends and got better with surgery, but then she kept talking about suicide a lot. She had lost a boyfriend to suicide previously. She ended up deleting her accounts to make me think she might be dead, then eventually she let me have some sign of life again in the form of a Spotify playlist, but I'm still scared all the time.

I am not giving you my sats. You are literally have the most bitcoin and people keep giving you tips .

The wealth should go from top to bottom and not from bottom to top .

Fallout 4 actually sucks so bad I keep needing to clarify that I'm not mentioning it out of simple love

With AIs creating their models of the world primarily by reading text online, there's never been a more critical time to write than it is today.

This is an idea I've heard in a recent interview with Gwern and it's been reverberating in me ever since. Think about anything you care about, anything that's good or bad, anything of value to you. If it doesn't exist online, it basically doesn't exist at all for the AIs. That also means that your writings might be part of the training data of future AIs. By publishing your thoughts, you can become a tiny part of latent space tilting the self-reflection of the world in a direction you want to.